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2. Gleditsia triacanthos L. Honey Locust. A rather large 
rapidly growing tree 100° or more high with pale rough bark, 
spreading branches, zigzag twigs and long simple or branched 
thorns. Leaves mostly bipinnate sometimes once pinnate, 
Flowers in staminate and pistillate racemes in April. Fruit 
~a long, flattened, more or less twisted pod with a pulp between 
the seeds. 
Ontario to Kansas, Florida and Texas. Extensively planted 
-throughout. Grows well in dry or sandy soil. The thorns 
are somewhat objectionable. Wood hard, strong, coarse 
grained, reddish brown. 
3. Gleditsia Texana Sargeant. Texan Honey Locust. A 
large narrow topped tree 100°-120° high, with thin, smooth 
bark and unarmed branches. Leaves once or twice pinnate. 
Flowers in axillary staminate and pistillate racemes. Fruit 
a straight, flat pod 4+ to 5 inches long without pulp between 
the seeds. Reported from a single bottom land grove near 
Brazoria, Texas. 
FABACEAE Reichenbach. The Pea Family. 
Trees or shrubs with alternate, pinnate leaves, usually per- 
fect pea shaped flowers, borne solitary or in compound elus- 
ters. Fruit a dehiscent or indehiscent pod. 
Leaves with an odd leaflet at the end............. 1. Eysenhardtia. 
Leaves without an odd leaflet at the end. 
Pods constricted between the seeds........... 2. Sophora. 
Pods not constricted between the seeds. 
Branches with thorns, pods winged on the 
ERE RENO Oe pce No athe, oat pvc, of oh Wie win, oA 3. Robinia. 
Branches without thorns, pods not winged 4. Coursetia. 
EYSENHARDTIA H. B. K. 
1. EHEysenhardtia orthocarpa S. Watson. A small tree or 
shrub with thin, gray, scaly bark and reddish brown twigs. 
Leaves equally pinnate, leaflets 10-24 pairs. Flowers white in 
dense many flowered axillary spikes. Fruit a short pod. bear- 
ing usually a single seed. 
Plains and prairies of western Texas and Mexico. 
